Performance with Anne Waldman, Ambrose Bye, and Devin Brahja

Corrala De Santiago

Granada, Spain

April 28, 2018 10am – 4 pm

Poetry Workshop with Anne Waldman

Free and Open to the Public
Enrollment limited.
Deadline is one week before the workshop date.
10 am to 4 pm
Register by email to bkln-creativewriting@LIU.edu

Learn more about the LIU MFA in Creative Writing program here.

Women of Naropa Reading at the Nalanda Events Center
6287 Arapahoe Ave, Boulder, CO 80301

More information coming soon…

Sound Poetry: The Wages of Syntax – Day 1

Artists: Anne Waldman, with Karen Stackpole, gongs; Clark Coolidge, with Alvin Curran keyboards and electronics; Michael McClure; Aram Saroyan; Jaap Blonk; Enzo Minarelli.

Legendary figures of the Second Generation of New York School Poets Anne Waldman, Clark Coolidge and Aram Saroyan meet the Beast of the San Francisco Beats, Michael McClure.

With cameo previews by Dutch legend Jaap Blonk and Italian poet/publisher Enzo Minarelli. Composer Alvin Curran visits from Rome to sound out syntax confounder Clark Coolidge in the world premiere of Just About Out Of Nowhere. The Buddhist co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodies Poetics at Naropa, Anne Waldman’s readings are performances that remain indelible in the memory. Aram Saroyan’s one word poems are best exemplified by his piece crickets, here given a special treatment by the poet himself. And Michael McClure unleashes his inner beast to intone his Ghost Tantras.

ODC Theater
3153 17th St.
San Francisco, CA 94110

To view details for this concert, click here.

Conversation with Anne Waldman & Joshua Kotin

Moderated by Joshua Kotin (author of Utopias of One), this oral history conversation will focus on the communities that have emerged around or intersected with the life and work of poet, performer, activist and relentless force-for-the-good Anne Waldman—including stories about individual poets, friends, and thinkers she’s engaged with as well as such organizations as the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics/Naropa University and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church.

A brief trailer for the forthcoming documentary about Anne Waldman, Outrider: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, may possibly be shown in advance of the event. Stay tuned….

Edison Newman Room, Houghton Library.
Quincy St & Harvard Street, Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public.

“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form” – from the Heart Sutra

Based on personal study and experience, this talk will touch on the refuge and Bodhisattva vows, the Six Realms of Existence, “co-emergent wisdom” as well as a parallel vow to poetry, and the joys and contradictions therein. Also, reference to Giorgio Agamben’s notion of being contemporary with one’s time as “looking into the darkness.” The presentation will be supplemented by reference to particular writers associated with the Beat Literary Movement as well as the presenter’s own poetry.

Center for the Study of World Religions
Harvard Divinity School

CSWR Common Room
42 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA

Three Rooms Press presents a birthday tribute to legendary Beat icon and postmodern trailblazer William S. Burroughs. The event will be highlighted by work from internationally-acclaimed feminist/activist and performance artist Anne Waldman, author and editor Steven Taylor, with fast-speaking music with Devin Brahja Waldman and Ambrose Bye, Burroughs excerpts by poet Steve Dalachinsky, plus a very special preview of DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS: Burroughs & Ginsberg in Conversation (forthcoming from Three Rooms Press). Three Rooms Press co-directors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host.

William S. Burroughs was a Beat Generation writer known for his startling, nontraditional accounts of underground culture, most famously in the book Naked Lunch. Born on February 5, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri, Burroughs is frequently cited as a major influence on countercultural figures in the world of music, art, and literature.

$15, includes one drink

Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street (W 4th – Bleecker)
New York City

“This is an extraordinary time for writers as we face an expanding universe and our planet struggles with the destructive carbon footprint of the human. We will consider the rhizome of our interconnectedness, and find generative ways to write through chaos and negativity.This is a poetry/hybrid workshop for all curious writers. We will immerse ourselves in “experiments of attention” engaging memory, dream, documentary poetics, agit prop, erasure, cut-up, performance, and collaboration. We will cross genres and genders of possibility. And the linguistic possibility of shifting identity and focus.Inspiration and reference will be given to modernist, and post-mod contemporary writers associated with the Outrider tradition. We will discuss archive, artistic-community, the 100 year project and what it means to be contemporary with one’s time. Writing, discussion, critique.”

Date: Saturday, December 2
Time: 11AM – 5PM
Location: Media Arts Lounge, 2nd Floor Humanities Building
Long Island University
1 University Plaza, Brooklyn NY 11201
Lunch will be served.

Each workshop costs $200. To register, please send us a short cover letter describing your experiences with writing Poetry/Fiction, and a writing sample of 3-5 pages to masterclass.liubrooklyn@gmail.com. Seats are limited.

ARTAUD AND THE BLACK LODGE

Music by David T. Little / Libretto by Anne Waldman
Written for the LA based band Timur and The Dime Museum

Thursday, August 10 / 8:30pm
Friday, August 11 / 8:30pm
Saturday, August 12 / 8:30pm

REDCAT
631 W 2nd St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

TICKETS

Artaud in the Black Lodge is a contemporary work of music-theatre exploring the imagined psychic connections among French poet and director Antonin Artaud, known for his theory The Theatre of Cruelty; Beat-generation and post-modernist author William S. Burroughs; and filmmaker David Lynch, known for, among other things, the television series “Twin Peaks”, and the award-winning film “Blue Velvet”.

The annual NOW Festival transforms REDCAT into a vital laboratory for the creation of new contemporary performances. This year’s festival launches nine new works by Los Angeles artists who invent hybrid artistic disciplines, re-imagine traditions and confront urgent issues.

www.bethmorrisonprojects.org

June 11 – July 1, 2017
Naropa University, Boulder, CO

The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Writing Program: “The New Weathers”

The Summer Writing Program is a four-week-long convocation of students, poets, fiction writers, scholars, translators, performance artists, activists, Buddhist teachers, musicians, printers, editors, and others working in small press publishing. Programming includes workshops, lectures, panels, readings, special events, and more.

In dialogue with renowned practitioners, students engage in the composition of poetry, prose fiction, cross-genre possibilities, inter-arts, translation, and writing for performance. Participants work in daily contact with some of the most accomplished and notoriously provocative writers of our time, meeting individually and in small groups, so that both beginning and experienced writers find equal challenge in the program.

All four weeks (or any combination of weeks) are open to any interested participant for noncredit. Students from other institutions or degree programs may also elect to attend for undergraduate or graduate credit.

Artistic Director and Curator: Anne Waldman
SWP Director: Jeffrey Pethybridge